Genesis 5:15

Jared Heb. Yared= "a going down." Cf. Jordan (Heb. Yardên) = "the going down, or descending, river" (?). The Book of jubilees, written in the latter part of the second century b.c., made use of this Hebrew etymology of the name, and connected it with the descending of angels upon the earth, when "the sons of God saw the daughters of men," &c., Genesis 6:2. To suppose that it denotes "descent," in the sense of "deterioration," is very far fetched.